# butas
## English
### Noun

butas
* plural of buta

### Anagrams

* Taubs, buats, abuts, tabus, BATUS, tubas, busta, tsuba, Staub

## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: bu‧tas
* IPA: /buˈtas/ [buˈtas]

### Noun

butás
* act of setting free, setting loose
* act of freeing, releasing
* act of fumbling
    Synonyms: kapkap, kamas-kamas
* weaning
    Synonym: tari

#### Derived terms

* butasan
* butason
* mabutasan
* magbutas
* makabutas

## Cebuano
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: bu‧tas

### Noun

butas
* a ritual offering to the spirits for a good harvest

## French
### Verb

butas
* second-person singular past historic of buter

### Anagrams

* tubas

## Lithuanian
### Alternative forms

* butà (dialectal, Old Lithuanian)

### Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European bʰuH- ("to be") + -tós. Cognate with Latvian būda (“hut, shack”), Old Prussian buttan (“house”), Old Irish both (“hut”), Proto-Germanic *bōþō (“building, hut”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbʊt̪ɐs̪]

### Noun

bùtas m (plural bùtai) stress pattern 2
* flat, apartment
    Àš gyvenù víeno kam̃bario butè.I live in a one room apartment.
* (dialectal) house, cottage
* (Žemaitian) building, house

#### Derived terms

* bendrabutis
* viešbutis

### References

* ↑ Derksen, Rick (2015) “butas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 107
* ↑ “butà” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 172 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).
* ↑ “butas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012

### Further reading

* “butas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
* “butas”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2025

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog)
** IPA: /ˈbutas/ [ˈbuː.t̪ɐs] (noun)
*** Rhymes: -utas
** IPA: /buˈtas/ [bʊˈt̪as] (adjective)
*** Rhymes: -as
* Syllabification: bu‧tas

### Noun

butas (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜐ᜔)
* hole; pit
* orifice; opening; mouth; outlet
* eye (of a needle)
* leak; crack
* act of boring a hole; perforation
    Synonym: pagbutas
* (figurative) loophole; means of escape
    Synonym: lusutan

#### Derived terms

* bumutas
* butas-ilong
* butasan
* butasin
* dumaan sa butas ng karayom
* ipambutas
* itim na butas
* mabutas
* magbutas
* magkabutas-butas
* pagbubutas
* pagbubutas-butas
* pagbutas
* pagbutas-butasin
* pamasak-butas
* pambutas
* takip-butas

### Adjective

butás (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜐ᜔)
* perforated; punctured; with hole or holes
    Synonym: busbos
* (figurative, slang) deflowered; devirginized (no longer a virgin)

#### Derived terms

* butas ang bulsa
* butas-butas
* pagkamabutas

### Further reading

* “butas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

## Tausug
### Pronunciation

* (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA: /butas/ [bʊˈt̪as]
* Rhymes: -as
* Syllabification: bu‧tas

### Verb

butas (Sulat Sūg spelling بُتَسْ)
* (transitive) to separate, part, cease to associate with, wean (a child or young animal).

#### Derived terms

* biyutas
* bumutas
* hipagbutasan
* magbutas
* nabutas
* pagbutasan